13-letter words containing p, w
- a clean sweep — If you make a clean sweep of something such as a series of games or tournaments, you win them all.
- aperitif-wine — a small drink of alcoholic liquor taken to stimulate the appetite before a meal.
- apparent wind — (wind), the velocity of air as measured from a moving object, as a ship.
- april showers — showers falling in April, generally considered a showery month
- at peace with — If you are at peace with yourself or at peace with the world, you feel calm and contented, and you have no emotional conflicts within yourself or with other people.
- atomic weapon — a weapon in which energy is provided by nuclear fission
- awe-inspiring — If you describe someone or something as awe-inspiring, you are emphasizing that you think that they are remarkable and amazing, although sometimes rather frightening.
- baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
- bankrupt worm — a roundworm (genus Trichostrongylus) that is an intestinal parasite of birds and mammals, especially devastating to young livestock.
- binary weapon — a chemical weapon consisting of a projectile containing two substances separately that mix to produce a lethal agent when the projectile is fired
- bishop's weed — goutweed.
- bishop's-weed — goutweed.
- blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
- bound up with — closely or inextricably linked with
- braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
- brown creeper — a small bush bird, Finschia novaeseelandiae, of South Island, New Zealand
- brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
- camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
- cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
- cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers.
- cape-farewell — Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
- card walloper — (jargon) An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
- carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
- carpet-weaver — a person who weaves carpets
- catch up with — When people catch up with someone who has done something wrong, they succeed in finding them in order to arrest or punish them.
- chew-'n'-spew — any fast-food restaurant considered to be serving poor quality food
- chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
- chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
- clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- companionways — Plural form of companionway.
- company woman — a female employee whose allegiance to her employer comes before personal beliefs or loyalty to fellow workers.
- complete with — If one thing comes complete with another, it has that thing as an extra or additional part.
- cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
- corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
- counter-power — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- creepy-crawly — You can refer to insects as creepy-crawlies when they give you a feeling of fear or disgust. This word is mainly used by children.
- crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
- disfellowship — (in some Protestant religions) the status of a member who, because of some serious infraction of church policy, has been denied the church's sacraments and any post of responsibility and is officially shunned by other members.
- dispense with — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
- dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
- drownproofing — a survival technique, for swimmers or nonswimmers, in which the body is allowed to float vertically in the water, with the head submerged, the lungs filled with air, and the arms and legs relaxed, the head being raised to breathe every ten seconds or so.
- earning power — business: ability to profit
- european wasp — a large black-and-yellow banded wasp, Vespula germanica, native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia, now established in Australasia and the US
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